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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

Gaston Bachelard

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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